Wonkette walks back false Yoder report

8/24/12 10:44 AM EDT

Wonkette, the political gossip and satire website, has issued a wonderfully candid walk-back after posting a photograph that, it claimed, showed Rep. Kevin Yoder naked (or half-naked) in the Sea of Galilee.

"Multiple people are writing in to tell Your Editrix she is the worst reporter in the world — no argument — and that our EXCLUSIVE Kevin Yoder pic is in fact of Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia," Wonkette's Rebbeca Schoenkopf wrote in an "update" that now appears at the top of the post. "If this is true, and there will simply never be any way to tell beyond looking at the dates when Graves and Yoder and Paulsen went to Israel, then that makes the rest of this post entirely bullshit, which also means that Paulsen’s people did not lie to us...."

Schoenkopf has also crossed out the erroneous caption to the photo and changed the headline to, "EXCLUSIVE! HERE IS YOUR PICTURE OF KEVIN YODER ALL NUDE-LIKE IN THE SEA OF GALILEE, WAIT NO IT ISN’T."

Wonkette's report comes five days after POLITICO reported that the FBI was looking into a congressional fact-finding trip during which Rep. Yoder took off his clothes and jumped into the Sea of Galillee -- an issue that has drawn criticism from other conservatives, including Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan.